In Venice also there were joy-bells ringing; and to overflowing tables, spread in the water-storey of the Ca' Giustiniani, the people of Venice were freely bidden by silken banners floating legends of welcome above the open doorway.

" The dirtiest woman to be found, probably, at that hour in the whole of London, appeared from a lower storey in answer to his summons.

He transferred his attention from the formidable defences of the lower storey to the second.

She saw the detested Arthur Dayson in the distance of the street, and crossed hurriedly to the Square, looking fixedly at the storeys above the ironmonger's so that Arthur Dayson could not possibly catch her eye.

He lies in a cot in the upper storey with a knife-wound between his shoulder-blades.

Even then, however, I failed in the gloom to find the inn, and was becoming quite exhausted, when over the door of a house, loftier by a storey than those around it, I saw a brass plate with the inscription, "Pensionnat de Demoiselles," and, beneath, the name, "Madame Beck."

Copies of this poster had also been fixed, face outwards, on the two curtainless black windows, to announce to the Market Square what was afoot in the top storey over the ironmonger's.

His eyes chose the second storey for hers, and picked out two dainty windows as her rooms.